Attack on Gab Proves Speech Was Never Free

The First Amendment protects your right to say whatever you want free from government prosecution. It does not protect you from saying hateful things on private properties or privately-owned forums without fear of repercussion.

That is the very definition of freedom of association.

Friday’s attack by an unhinged, vile piece of human excrement on a Synagogue in Pittsburgh wasn’t hours old before real world agendas pushed to the top of the news.

This is classic barrier-to-entry stuff that the government engages in to protect the market share of the favored companies over their competition.

And despite the roadblocks put up in front of Gab it has continued to grow.

The platform has improved. I know. I’ve been a member since 2016 when it was only a haven for the vilest of people. That early culture drove me away along with its limitations, but then again, I’m pretty bad at this whole social media thing.

But, today that is not the case. Gab simply doesn’t censor you. If you want to be a jackass in public, that’s your business.

And yet, Gab will again be off the air, this time for weeks, while it migrates to a new platform, because its existence is a threat to the powerful who are rightly scared of losing their shiny new control platform.

It shouldn’t matter whether you like Gab’s platform or not. Are there terrible people on Gab? Yes.

Are there terrible people posting horrific things on Twitter? Oh, you betcha.

Businesses which are paying their bills should be welcomed by service providers. Hosting a platform is not an endorsement of the content of that platform. A 48 hour shutdown notice was designed to destroy Gab’s business.

The companies terminating these contracts are doing so because of the pressure from those that want Gab shut down, case closed. And they are hiding behind their vaguely worded Terms of Service to act unilaterally.

Because none of these companies believe in Free Speech.

That the hand of The Davos Crowd is behind this move to shut down alternative speech platforms is chilling.

That they are willing to deprive a peaceable man, in this case Gab’s CEO, his right to associate with all who are willing to support him is despicable.

Free Speech is cheap, defending it costs money. It’s also messy and chaotic. It means building new systems that prevent this from happening again.

The only people who want to see free speech curtailed are those scared by what people say about them. Everyone else should be happy vile men like the shooter let everyone know who they are.

They help us define the limits of our associations.

Those that spend their money supporting platforms like Gab, news outlets like InfoWars or even people like myself are the means by which we break their control.

People like Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan and even Sargon of Akkad have larger audiences now than CNN. Their credibility gap with the public is massive.

And it will never be crossed.

Moves like this are desperation. They still think the old rules still rule – that these power brokers still control transmission of information.

Gab will find a new home. Within hours of their pending de-platforming, another service offered them a home, apparently looking to build a business hosting the unwanted, the maligned and the persecuted.

I’m putting them in my bookmark folder for future reference.

Governments are like generals, always fighting the last war. Humans are too smart to be kept down for too long. Someone will always find a way to offer a work-around to an existing problem.

And if the problem is censorship, then the solution is technology.

That’s what the division of labor is all about. Gab was a reaction to Silicon Valley’s hatred of free speech. Eventually all of this will be put on a blockchain and paid for outside of the normal banking system if Soros, Zuckerberg, Merkel and the rest of these corporatists continue pushing for total control over speech.

Meanwhile, Gab had its best couple of days in terms of new accounts ever.

Just like Alex Jones saw interest in InfoWars spike after his un-personing in August. So, I have no doubt that Gab will survive because as Ron Paul so brilliantly said during his runs for the Presidency, “Freedom is Popular.”

And that freedom is what Twitter and Facebook have forgotten. They were popular because of their lack of filter.

Their anarchy.

And if there is one thing the government hates is competition.

What is the antithesis to government? Lack of it.

Everything great in the world was created through voluntary exchange. Through functional anarchy.

Even if you disagree with this article, you are doing so freely, without any coercion. All I can do is offer up my best ideas and see if you like them. I can’t make you read this.

And I don’t do it for free. I do it because I feel what I have to say is worth not only your time but your direct support. And so far more than 210 of you have chosen freely to do just that.

Just like I supported Gab at the outset, sending in donations because I saw this coming. And I knew that money spent today was a down payment on a world without speech controls tomorrow.

And that’s something we should all shout about at the tops of our lungs.

He’s been going on about this idea for a while. The Post Office is “public”, but not necessarily government run. The same goes, or went, in the UK. Hell, you even had Post Office banks, a hobby horse of Ellen Brown.

We’ve been around for 1-2 K years. We’ve had the Magna Carta. It’s all been done before.

This path will lead to conflict. When the people get pissed off for good reason and their voices are thwarted, they will revolt and fight back. This is happening in every country in the world, it’s just the USA leading the way.

Highlighting the premeditated attack on free speech tells only half the story. The other complementary half is the probability that the “attack” on the synagogue itself was staged with equal premeditation. What’s worrying from a free speech standpoint is that even the “alternative” outlets usually pointing out the possibility of a false flag or hoax have been silent.

Agree with your sentiments re: Freedom of Association. That was killed dead with the Civil Rights Act of 1968. We need a Federal statute protecting lawful speech on social media. This is the solution–> http://shallnotcensor.com